Image credit: NASA TV
Space Shuttle Atlantis, stacked with its external tank and solid rocket boosters, was rolled out to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning for a scheduled May 12 launch to perform the final scheduled servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
Atlantis was on the pad last fall set for an October launch for the HST servicing mission but had to be rolled back for a replacement Science Instrument Command & Data Handling unit to be prepared for flight after an anomaly on-orbit. Hopefully, this time Atlantis will be able to leave the pad vertically.
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